Patrick Girouard – Designer

When I was growing up my teachers constantly scolded me for drawing monsters, robots, and aliens during class. Then I finished growing up and illustrated my first book. It was about monsters, robots, and aliens! Success is the best revenge.

My clients include Sesame Street, Scholastic, Oxford University Press, Child's World, Sterling/Pinwheel, Children's Press, Igloo Books, National Geographic, Kid City, Spider, Weekly Reader, Click Magazine, Highlights, and USA Today. I look forward to working with you to help bring your story to life with humor, warmth, and imagination.

Testimonials

Patrick G. illustrated my book, "Parker Pig Goes to Yoga," and I owe my book success to him! His illustrations far exceeded my wildest dreams and expectations! Highly recommend Patrick as an illustrator to anyone with words on a page! He made my book come to life!! Forever grateful for Patrick! Namaste!

- Stacey Alysson, Author

I've worked with Patrick G. for over 10 years, and he is both a fabulous illustrator and a consummate professional. His illustrations are truly timeless in style — he illustrated covers for Scholastic workbooks over 10 years ago and they are still among the top 10 bestselling educational products at retail. Patrick is versatile, able to produce fun, whimsical scenes with kids, adults, animals, or anthropomorphic critters. I admit I'm partial to his underwater scenes and his anthropomorphized insects. The folks at Highlights loved his ant scenes so much they created a separate category called "Antics" to feature them.

- Sharon Streger, Sequel Creative

Patrick illustrated a book for me for kids 4-8. I hired him because I fell in love with his work. It's whimsical and funny, and "gets" the mind of a child. I loved his use of colors, which make his images as beautiful as stained glass. He was wonderful to work with: warm, funny, patient, professional, good with communication, and with great ideas for bringing a story to life. Just an all around mensch with an incredible talent.

- Lisa Scheffer, Catadon Press

Patrick is an incredibly gifted visual storyteller, a strong collaborator, and a clear communicator. We hired him to illustrate the cover of a book poems written by elementary schoolers, entitled "The Light You Need." Patrick went above and beyond our expectations to bring our students' work to life—he selected four different stories with strong visual elements to incorporate into the covers, which made for beautifully playful imagery that let students know we value their voices and creativity. Working with Patrick was an honor and a pleasure, we can't wait for the next opportunity to hire him!

- Abi Humber, 826CHI

I'm always happy to work with Patrick G. His work is fun and colorful with just the right tone for our young readers. Projects are a painless process with Patrick! He's a real pro.

- Kelley Lanuto, Highlights Hive Five

I needed a great illustration on a tight schedule, and Patrick delivered wonderfully. Beautiful work! Can't wait to work with him again.

- Ben Carpenter, Denton County Magazine